Technology@Wooster

The Office of Information Technology seeks to hire a Programmer/Analyst to replace the recently departed John Ma. The job description, desired qualifications and application instructions appear below.

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Full-time position reporting to the Manager of Applications Development supports key administrative information systems by maintaining and enhancing vendor-supplied software (currently Datatel Colleague). Duties include configuring software, managing user access to data, reviewing and testing software updates, implementing new features, programming customizations when approved, writing reports and interfaces, supporting department end-users, developing procedures to solve complex problems and integrate systems, troubleshooting functional problems, conducting training, writing procedure documentation, and adhering to technical and security standards.

Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Information Technology and at least 4 years experience in programming/systems analysis or equivalent required. Must have experience with relational databases, desktop reporting tools and utility software; Must have experience maintaining application software; defining requirements by conferring with end-users, preparing specifications, writing program code, and testing. Must be familiar with web-based interfaces, and have extensive knowledge of database structures and concepts. Experience with aix (or other unix), Unidata and SQL databases, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, HTML, and JavaScript is preferred. Must be self-motivated, proactive, and have solid team and interpersonal skills. Must demonstrate strong written and oral communications skills for both technical and non-technical audiences. Must be highly organized and possess excellent analytical skills to develop technical solutions to business problems.Full-time position with competitive salary and benefit package. Application review begins immediately and continues until position is filled. Send letter of application, current resume, and contact information for at least three business references to:

The Department Human Resources
The College of Wooster
536 E. Wayne Avenue
Wooster, OH 44691
or
humanresources@wooster.edu

AA/EOE/Drug Free Workplace

IT has a new User Support Specialist.  Joel Kilmer recently assumed the position formerly held by Leslie Worcester.  Joel holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and comes to us having held technology support positions with Circuit City and Best Buy.  Joel’s interest include the piano, fencing and the martial arts.  Welcome, Joel!

User Support Specialist Joel Kilmer

The fourth of four finalists for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit campus on Monday, September 24. The candidate will make a public presentation at 4:00 in Severance 009. He will speak on the role of technology in teaching and learning in the liberal arts environment. The candidate’s vitae is now available online. All are invited to provide the search committee with feedback by completing and submitting the evaluation form.

The third of four finalists for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit campus on Thursday, September 20. The candidate will make a public presentation at 11:00 in Kauke 305. He will speak on the role of technology in teaching and learning in the liberal arts environment. The candidate’s vitae is now available online. All are invited to provide the search committee with feedback by completing and submitting the evaluation form.

Over the course of Thursday and Friday, September 13th and 14th, the College experienced intermittent network difficulties. These difficulties impacted access to resources on the campus network as well as resources on the internet. These problems were tracked to a small number of personal computers infected with some type of virus. The virus was, in each case, generating a tremendous amount of network traffic. This traffic significantly degraded network performance. These computers were removed from the network at approximately 5:00 Friday afternoon. Following the removal network performance returned to normal. IT hopes to examine the infected machines to ascertain the nature of the infection. We regret any inconvenience the network difficulties may have caused.

A recent article in The Wooster Voice described Residence Life’s initiative to enhance the lounges within College residence halls. The goal of the initiative is to improve the quality of life for students on campus by enhancing the lounges as areas for students to gather and have fun. Over the summer many of the lounges received fresh coats of paint, new carpet, and table tennis or billiards tables. The Media Services group within IT partnered with Residence Life to select and install new large screen televisions in the following residence halls:

• Andrews
• Armington
• Babcock
• Bissman
• Bornhuetter
• Compton
• Douglass
• Holden
• Kenarden
• Stevenson
• Wagner

IT is pleased to have played a supporting role in this initiative. Special thanks to Bob Shipley and Anthony Liccardi who completed the installations during the dog days of August.

The second of four finalists for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit campus on Monday, September 17. The candidate will make a public presentation at 4:00 in Severance 009. He will speak on the role of technology in teaching and learning in the liberal arts environment. The candidate’s vitae is now available online. All are invited to provide the search committee with feedback by completing and submitting the evaluation form.

The first of four finalists for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit campus on Monday, September 10. The candidate will make a public presentation at 4:00 in Severance 009. He will speak on the role of technology in teaching and learning in the liberal arts environment. The candidate’s vitae is now available online. All are invited to provide the search committee with feedback by completing and submitting the evaluation form.

As was the case last year, IT devoted a good deal of time and resources to upgrading computer labs over the summer:

• Physics Lab (Taylor 101)
  The Physics lab’s 13 17-inch table lamp iMacs were replaced with new 20-inch iMacs.
• Economics Lab (Morgan 217)
  This lab’s 29 15-inch table lamp iMacs were replaced with 29 new 17-inch iMacs.
• Timken Science Lab
  The Timken Lab’s 17 eMacs were replaced with new 17-inch iMacs.
• Chemistry Lab (Severance 111)
  The 13 15-inch table lamp iMacs in this lab were replaced with Dell Optiplex 745’s running Windows XP.
• McCreight Lab (Gault Library Lower Level One)
  This lab’s 19 eMacs were replaced with 15-inch iMacs removed from the Economics lab.

In addition, the computers in the Psychology Lab and the Digital Media Lab in Ebert received significant memory upgrades. All new machines installed in computer labs were equipped with 2 gigabytes of memory.

A significant number of computer labs were also upgraded last summer. These include the Geology Lab in Scovel 305 and the general purpose lab in Taylor 209. The computers in the Psychology and Biology mobile carts were also replaced. Kauke Hall reopened after its renovation with four new computer labs. The public lab in Taylor 205 and the Wired Scot internet cafe were also significantly enhanced over summer 2006. The McCreight lab in Gault Library was created using computers removed from the upgraded labs in Taylor.

Information on all campus computer labs–including the software applications installed in each–can be found on the IT website. Select the “Computing Resources” tab and follow the “Labs and Classrooms” link on the subsequent page.